# Adding Tidal Connect **URL:** \ **Category:** MyVolumio Help and Support\ **Tags:** tidalconnect\ **Created:** [October 21, 2020, 6:31pm UTC](https://community.volumio.com/t/adding-tidal-connect/42022 "2020-10-21T18:31:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 18
**Author:** ![volumio](https://community.volumio.com/user_avatar/community.volumio.com/volumio/32/3_2.png) [@volumio](https://community.volumio.com/u/volumio)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2022, 4:50pm UTC](https://community.volumio.com/t/adding-tidal-connect/42022/359 "2022-02-08T16:50:03Z")
> [@Shutterist](#): > > Great work from the team! Really glad to hear that you’re enjoying your music with Volumio, even portable 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Shutterist](https://community.volumio.com/user_avatar/community.volumio.com/shutterist/32/10167_2.png) [@Shutterist](https://community.volumio.com/u/Shutterist)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2022, 1:35pm UTC](https://community.volumio.com/t/adding-tidal-connect/42022/360 "2022-02-09T13:35:11Z")
If I could get my hands on another with a header pre attached (wouldn’t trust myself to solder one - and I’ve not had much success with hammer in headers), I’d be upgrading the Zero I have attached to a Just Boom digi HAT and into my DAC and Headphone amp stack. They seem to be in (very) short supply in the UK at the moment though. ---
**Author:** ![DefinitelyNotThor](https://community.volumio.com/user_avatar/community.volumio.com/definitelynotthor/32/11836_2.png) [@DefinitelyNotThor](https://community.volumio.com/u/DefinitelyNotThor)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2022, 9:00pm UTC](https://community.volumio.com/t/adding-tidal-connect/42022/361 "2022-02-21T21:00:00Z")
I have the intermittent Tidal Connect problem too. Exact same behavior as others report: cutting out, spinner where play should be, back and forward sometimes kickstarts it unless Tidal totally unresponsive. Switching or restarting devices, same problem. Pi keeps disappearing from Tidal Connect deviceist. Restarting Pi helps for a short while. Was still on 2.x and it was getting intolerable, so I just now did a upgrade to latest 3 version. Zero improvement. This feature is the Only reason I’ve subscribed to Volumio. It would be great to see some help here for all the folks havi g trouble. ---
**Author:** ![reguax](https://community.volumio.com/user_avatar/community.volumio.com/reguax/32/7760_2.png) [@reguax](https://community.volumio.com/u/reguax)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2022, 9:35pm UTC](https://community.volumio.com/t/adding-tidal-connect/42022/362 "2022-02-21T21:35:57Z")
+1 With Tidal Connect and Fusion DSP not working, subscription doesn’t make sense ☹ ---
**Author:** ![balbuze](https://community.volumio.com/user_avatar/community.volumio.com/balbuze/32/30223_2.png) [@balbuze](https://community.volumio.com/u/balbuze)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 6:02pm UTC](https://community.volumio.com/t/adding-tidal-connect/42022/363 "2022-02-22T18:02:54Z")
FusionDsp is in beta state and is FREE ---
**Author:** ![reguax](https://community.volumio.com/user_avatar/community.volumio.com/reguax/32/7760_2.png) [@reguax](https://community.volumio.com/u/reguax)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 7:49pm UTC](https://community.volumio.com/t/adding-tidal-connect/42022/364 "2022-02-22T19:49:32Z")
Right, it is FREE, but it is very valuable to me. I use it for headphones (autoeq) and DRC. Fusion + Tidal Connect were going to be perfect for my needs. Now I don’t have either, so v3 is a big loss. ‘FREE’ means that I can’t make any kind of demands, I know, and of course I’m grateful for your work 🤗 but I can still feel dissapointed by the current status of the whole system, including its free components 🤷‍♂️ ---
**Author:** ![gkkpch](https://community.volumio.com/user_avatar/community.volumio.com/gkkpch/32/17306_2.png) [@gkkpch](https://community.volumio.com/u/gkkpch)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 8:38pm UTC](https://community.volumio.com/t/adding-tidal-connect/42022/365 "2022-02-22T20:38:40Z")
Yes, I’m also free to be dissappointed I don’t get my croissants for free at my local baker. I mean all his tools are paid for already and the flour and butter hardly costs anything. ---
**Author:** ![volumio](https://community.volumio.com/user_avatar/community.volumio.com/volumio/32/3_2.png) [@volumio](https://community.volumio.com/u/volumio)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 9:24pm UTC](https://community.volumio.com/t/adding-tidal-connect/42022/366 "2022-02-22T21:24:11Z")
> [@reguax](#): > > Fusion + Tidal Connect were going to be perfect for my needs. We are working as hard as we can on both. Keep faith ---
**Author:** ![Swubbs](https://community.volumio.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@Swubbs](https://community.volumio.com/u/Swubbs)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 9:34pm UTC](https://community.volumio.com/t/adding-tidal-connect/42022/367 "2022-02-22T21:34:21Z")
I am there with you ! Fusion is a great DSP software and should be part of the premium tier so the developer gets his share :). ---
**Author:** ![gkkpch](https://community.volumio.com/user_avatar/community.volumio.com/gkkpch/32/17306_2.png) [@gkkpch](https://community.volumio.com/u/gkkpch)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 10:19pm UTC](https://community.volumio.com/t/adding-tidal-connect/42022/368 "2022-02-22T22:19:30Z")
Yeah, some stupid community members still have difficulties to understand what other community members are doing for them by creating plugins nobody has to pay one penny for. The DSP is fully free work from an appreciated community member, for you to use for free, like all other plugins. To emphasize: not only do you get plugins for free, the community developers do not get paid for it either. So, stop making a fool of yourself by claiming the dev gets money from the premium tier, inform yourself before posting rubbish! ---
**Author:** ![volumio](https://community.volumio.com/user_avatar/community.volumio.com/volumio/32/3_2.png) [@volumio](https://community.volumio.com/u/volumio)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2022, 10:43pm UTC](https://community.volumio.com/t/adding-tidal-connect/42022/369 "2022-02-22T22:43:28Z")
> [@gkkpch](#): > > So, stop making a fool of yourself by claiming the dev gets money from the premium tier, inform yourself before posting rubbish! I don’t think it was his intention… Let’s calm down… To be totally fair: the work done on FusionDSP is carried out by a great plugin developer on his free time, and this will contribute a lot on the value of Volumio. What this plugin can do is however also made possible by the huge work done by the core team on the Volumio Advanced Audio Pipeline, which has been funded thanks to MyVolumio. So, let’s just calm down and let’s enjoy what comes… ---
**Author:** ![DefinitelyNotThor](https://community.volumio.com/user_avatar/community.volumio.com/definitelynotthor/32/11836_2.png) [@DefinitelyNotThor](https://community.volumio.com/u/DefinitelyNotThor)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2022, 5:31pm UTC](https://community.volumio.com/t/adding-tidal-connect/42022/370 "2022-02-28T17:31:23Z")
I hope I don’t jinx it, but I might have found a less than obvious solution. My WiFi network is great: I spent quite a bit of time optimizing it for working from home, very little interference from neighbours, etc. It just works. Volumio & Tidal have been working great as well. Then something changed and Volumio became totally unreliable with all the symptoms in this thread. Seemed to be a Tidal app or Volumio problem, but I don’t think Tidal would let a zillion Tidal Connect customers suffer for long, so that seemed an unlikely source. Which leaves Volumio. Well, and the Pi of course. A little digging revealed (seemingly unrelated) problems with the Pi’s 2.4 GHz WiFi, which reminded me that while updating my access point firmware the 2.4 GHz radio got switched on when I normally have it disabled as I don’t need it. So I disabled the access point’s 2.4 GHz radio again to force the Pi onto 5 GHz and… everything seems stable again! At least vastly different than the recent weeks. So maybe the Pi under Volumio still has 2.4 GHz radio problems (the issue I read about was interference with the HDMI port, which isn’t used, but led me down this path). Not everyone will be able to turn of 2.4 GHz at their AP, so unless a system update can resolve the radio problem, a settings switch to turn off the Pi’s 2.4 GHz might be the solution. In most cases 5 GHz will be more stable, plenty strong enough, and once everything is set up, I don’t think there will be any roaming problems 😉 [Previous page](https://community.volumio.com/t/adding-tidal-connect/42022.md?page=17)